D&D 5e Community Pack

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This is the main information thread for the community add-ons called "Packs". Each Pack is downloaded and installed just like the official 5e SRD game from inside of Hero Lab. It just requires a one time setup to use and after that you will be auto-notified when updates are released.

See Hero Lab in action here: Hero Lab - D&D 5e Player Tour (https://youtu.be/Nk5QO5IS3N8)

Setup Instructions
Please see THIS (http://www.shadowsoftware.net/herolab/d20pfsrd/Community_Server_Setup.pdf) pdf document for detailed install instructions. After setting up the update URL restart Hero Lab and download the Pack or Packs you need/want.

BLOG: How To Install 5e Community Pack (http://imgur.com/gallery/H7UYt)
VIDEO: Hero Lab - How To Install And Configure The D&D 5e Community Pack (https://youtu.be/BbuvAJ70x3w)

The updates URL is:
http://www.shadowsoftware.net/herolab/5e/updates.xml

What D&D 5e Community "Packs" are available?
5e Community Pack – Contains the following:

PHB Backgrounds - Replacement backgrounds missing from the SRD release
PHB Class Options - Replacement Class options missing from the SRD release
PHB Feats - Replacement feats missing from the SRD release
SCAG Things - Bladesinging options for Wizards. 4 new spells.
ROT Things - 38 spells, 3 items.
Wiki Deities - 85 deities
The (Not Really) Complete Tome of Spells - 104 new spells added, more to come
Hoard of the Dragon Queen (10 Backgrounds, 1 spell, 4 magic items)
Rise of Tiamat (1 spell, 11 items)


Limitations of the Community Packs
The caveat with the Community Pack is that portions of descriptive text are often paraphrased (and sometimes omitted) to ensure the data files are legally sound. All the mechanics are fully implemented, so everything behaves the way you expect for your character, and you can always refer to the rule-books for the official language used.

Release Notes
Click HERE (https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/releases) to see the latest release notes.

Known Issue List
Click HERE (https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues) for a list of known issues.
Click HERE (https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/new) to report a new issue or request a new enhancement.

Report Issue / Request Feature
Always confirm that the issue is related to the Community Pack prior to logging a new issue. 'Things' created by the Community Pack will always have '5C' in the name. 'Things' without this flag are created by Lone Wolf or other users and should be reported through their individual processes.
Click HERE (https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/new) to report a new issue or request a new enhancement within the Community Pack.
Click HERE (http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=54821) to see the official Hero Labs support information.

To check the name of a 'thing'.
1. Develop > Enable Data File Debugging
2. Right click on the broken 'thing'.
3. Check the Copy Unique ID option. If it includes 5C it is community content. If it does not then it is official content or other user content.


Can you help?
We are always open to people who can contribute to the project. If you have missing source books you would like to add, flavor text to contribute or even want to assist in stamping out some of the bugs. Message me here or contact us by GitHub to assist as a Contributor. We are currently seeking replacement text for all 'things' where a <placeholder> has been used. In order to replace <placeholder> text we will need descriptions that are at least 20% different from the original source material.

If you have any such descriptions or are able to assist please contact us via the Report Issue (https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/new) option.

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FAQs for Community D&D 5e Pack:

1) How do I remove a Community Package
A: On Windows/Mac start Hero Lab and go to Tools->Manage Third Party Updates will allow you to remove a Pack or see what files where installed.

2) How to deal with your house rules and D&D 5e Community Packs?
A: You should treat the community data set files in the same way you would official Hero Lab files. This means you should NOT make changes directly to the .user files as those changes will be lost when you update to the next version. Instead you should create a new uniquely named .user file that does a Replaces Thing ID if you need to put in your own house rules over these community data sets.

3) Where and HOW do I get these new Packs?
A: See THIS (http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=55090) post for full details. But the new Packs are downloaded from inside of HL and all start with the wording "5e XXXXX Pack". Where XXXX is the name of the specific pack.

4) I am getting an error message when I start Hero Lab. How do I post the error to the forums to get help?
A: By right mouse clicking on an error message you can select "Copy". Then you can easily post the message into your post. Doing this will 100% speed up the chance of getting an answer that will actually help you.

5) How do I report an issue for one of the Community Packs or something you downloaded from d20pfsrd?
A: You can report it to the GitHub repository for this project using THIS LINK (https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/new).

6) How do a do a "Fresh/new" install of the community Packs?
A: To do a "fresh" install on Windows, Mac or iPad is to delete all the old community packages. Start Hero Lab and on Windows/Mac go to "Tools->Manage Third Party Updates" and delete all the community Packages (ie 5e Community Pack). Be sure to also delete any of the new Packs you installed also. Restart Hero Lab and download just the Pack or Packs you plan to actually use. On the iPad you can LEFT swipe across the addon's name and it will bring up the Delete button. Delete all the community ones and download/install just the Pack/Packs you need.

7) I am getting an error that is causing HL to not load any addons. What can I try?
A: One option to try is to download the Pack again. Let it overwrite the download and install again. This "some" times works and does not take long to try. If still getting an error please RIGHT click on the error window and PASTE the error message into this thread.

8) I am getting an error how can I paste it into this thread?
A: If you are getting a error window you can always RIGHT mouse click and select COPY to copy all the errors. Then you can past them into an post to help others diagnose what is wrong.

9) I get errors when opening my character that talk about sources (ie "Critical information not found in the data files: Source "Broken Chains")
A: So these files use to exist in the Community Player Pack but were removed through the development of the pack. To clean this up is pretty easy. Just open your character again and press OK through the message and go to "Portfolio->Strip Missing Sources". Save your character and you are good to go.

10) Is there an order to loading the new Packs?
A: No.

11) What are all the Placeholders?
A: While we are able to reproduce the mechanics of the missing content we are still unable to release content that is copyrighted. Therefore alot of fluffy text has been left out and replaced with a Placeholder. Eventually we would like to have new descriptions for everything to explain what the 'thing' is designed to do.
A: If anyone has the time we are interested in obtaining the text necessary to update all of the placeholders. The text would need to changed from the original sources however (min 80% diff). We will then update the placeholders in the community pack removing the need for Placeholders completely.

12) It says 'Alpha' or 'Beta' next to the option I want to use, what does that mean?
A: The Community pack is a consolidated effort by quite a few people working together for the greater good. We are however not wizards which means we add content as quickly as we can working with the few hours we have in between our real jobs. For this reason we prefer to release content as soon as its functional. There are however varied levels of functional. The tags below will help you to understand what level of functionality exists with the selections you are using.


<Just the selection name> - This is content that contains all 'options' and scripting. You will still come across <Placeholders> where paraphrased text has not yet been provided.
<Selection Name> - Beta - This is content that has had all of the 'options' input into the tool however some scripting is still outstanding.
<Selection Name> - Alpha - This is content that is currently having the 'options' entered into the tool. While you may find workable options here there will be lots of broken options and scripting will be missing.

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v2.2 February 2, 2018

NEW RELEASES

Xanathar's Guide to Everything - Classes, Spells, Common Magic Items & Racial Feats.
Tales from the Yawning Portal - Monsters & Magic Items
Unearthed Arcana - Feats for Skills added.
Unearthed Arcana - That Old Black Magic added. The tiefling race in this source has both abyssal and infernal subraces. The demon conjuration spells were added for you evil sorcerers and wizards.

ENHANCEMENTS & CHANGES

Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide (SCAG) - Barbarian totems have had their placeholder text replaced and scripts should be working properly now. Players desiring Tree Ghost must select Tree Ghost as their Totem Spirit (1st Totem Warrior Ability) in order for the spell 'Speak with Plants' to replace the 'Speak with Animals' ritual from Spirit Seeker.
Unearthed Arcana - The Ranger, Revised - The Ranger (2016) variant class' Fighting Styles were stacking with Fighting Styles earned from other classes or features, this has been fixed. The _'broken'_ fighting styles will show up with ' - Depreciated' added to the end of their names. The Depreciated fighting styles have been removed from the choices presented when Fighting Style is selected again, so only Fighting Styles that haven't been earned via another class or feat will show up on the selection dialog.
Unearthed Arcana - Gothic Heroes - The revenant race is depreciated. Dragonborn characters gain a Revenant draconic ancestry, which prompts for the original draconic ancestry and modifies the breath weapon appropriately. Many races with subrace options gain an appropriate Revenant subrace option. Finally, Humans and many other PC races were granted a Revenant variant racial trait. Select the '5e Unearthed Arcana - Gothic Heroes' source in Configure Hero (Ctrl-K) to explore the revised options.
DnD5E.info Custom Output (dpmcalister) - Character sheet fixes.

BUGS

Fixed where Aztec Pantheon was hijacking goblinoid gods. Forced goblinoid gods into the Goblin Pantheon as default.
En5ider 65 - Priests Elemental Power - fixed Fiery Soul for Flames domain.
Unearthed Arcana - Lore Mastery school fixed where it would double proficiency on all 4 skill mentioned rather than any you were proficient in.
Unearthed Arcana - Gothic Heroes - Inquisitive was showing up as selection even when source was was not selected. This is fixed.
Homebrew - Softpaw tool proficiency selection now shows up on Race tab correctly.
Homebrew - Psionics Handbook - Lurk was showing even when the source was not showing, this is corrected.

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v2.1 December 15, 2017

NEW RELEASES
Tomb of Annihilation (TOA) - Backgrounds, Magic Items, and Monsters
Dungeon Master's Guide (DMG) - Epic Boons from the Dungeon Master's Guide have been added!
Unearthed Arcana - Feats for Races
Unearthed Arcana - Trio of Classes
Unearthed Arcana - Elf Subraces

ENHANCEMENTS & CHANGES
Barbarian - Path of the Totem Warrior - Totemic Aspect Eagle now grants flight while raging is activated.
Barbarian - Path of the Totem Warrior - Spirit Walker, Spirit Seeker - spells granted now show up on spells tab
Cleric - Light Domain - Removed unnecessary usage tracker on Corona of Light (was limited to Wisdom bonus/day)
Cleric - Knowledge Domain - Added usage tracker on Visions of the Past (1/long rest)
Cleric - Nature Domain - Added script to remove the duplicate Cleric cantrips from the Acolyte of Nature feature, now shows only the cantrip that the cleric spell list doesn't already have.
Ranger - Ranger's Companion - Added scripts and bootstraps to auto-add a beast companion to the Ranger with updated attack, damage, AC bonuses.
Wizard - School of Illusion - If you are a forest gnome, you now get an extra cantrip slot when you select the school of illusion, to reflect the fact that you already have minor illusion.
Re-sorted the Unearthed Arcana article listing (is now alphabetically correct). Rescued and consolidated "orphaned" sources.
Familiars - added missing familiars (lizard, octopus, quipper, etc.)
Volo's Guide (VGtM): Added Death, Nature and Prophecy Hag variant races options with appropriate Shared Spellcasting and CR adjustments.
Volo's Guide (VGtM): Added missing Yuan-ti Malison type 4 and type 5 variants
Volo's Guide (VGtM): Added missing Mind Flayer Psion and several magic items for mind flayer thralls to use.
Out of the Abyss (OotA): Added missing "baby" Hook Horror and Basilisk monsters

BUGS
Restored adjustments accidentally removed with new release: Spells Known, Spells Memorized, Background Skill change, Background Skill add, Background Skill remove
Ranger (2016) - added Ranger(2016) to class list for Beast Bond spell.
Circle of the Land Druid Spells/En5ider 31 - code was removing the circle spells from appearing unless the En5ider source was enabled. This has been fixed. Circle spells now show up correctly, and urban circle shows up only if you have En5ider 31 enabled.
Unearthed Arcana - Artificer - fixed bug not allowing CR 0-1 Beasts from appearing for selection of Mechanical Companion
Unearthed Arcana - Artificer - fixed bug not granting ability score/feat increases past 4th level.
Unearthed Arcana - Warlock - fixed Shroud of Shadows and other Invocations showing as Patrons.
Unearthed Arcana - Starter Spells - fixed spell level of Healing Elixir
Hag Coven Variant (MM) - Shared spellcasting statblock showing incorrect attack and save DCs, added script to correct this.
Elemental Evil Player's Companion (EEPC) - Added missing acid resistance to water genasi and fire resistance to fire genasi.
Princes of the Apocalypse (PoTA) - fixed extra damage tags on magic items for readability
Volo's Guide to Monsters - adjusted Orc Intelligence adjustment to be correct.
Rise of Tiamat (RoT) - fixed several issues with dragon masks - added immunities, legendary resistance, unarmored AC bonus calculation.

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v2.0 August 19, 2017

New Features

Unearthed Arcana - Mystic V3
Unearthed Arcana - Spell Less Ranger
Unearthed Arcana - New Warlock Otherworldly Patron - Hexblade
Unearthed Arcana - New Warlock Otherworldly Patron - The Raven Queen
Unearthed Arcana - New Warlock Otherworldly Patron - The Celestial
Unearthed Arcana - 20 New Warlock Eldritch Invocations
Unearthed Arcana - New Wizard Arcane Tradition - Lore Mastery
Unearthed Arcana - Starter Spells Added
Unearthed Arcana - Updated Circle of the Shepherd to the New June 5th Unearthed Arcana
Unearthed Arcana - Updated Oath of Conquest to new June 5th Unearthed Arcana
Curse of Strahd - Haunted One background, Equipment, Magic Items, Monsters.
Volo's Guide to Monsters - All Monsters, Beasts and NPCs
Homebrew - New Race (Kasatha) - Pathfinder Conversion
Storm King's Thunder - Monsters and Magic Items added. Beta Release.
Out of the Abyss - All Items and Monsters
Wild Shape Adjustment - Have added a wild shape adjustment. To use it add the creature under the Gear tab as a Mount or Hireling. Then add the Wild Shape Adjustment. The list of creatures is limited to creatures that are setup as a Mount or Hirelink within the editor.
MM Wild Shape (Mounts) - Added all viable options from the Monster Manual so they can be configured using the Wild Shape Adjustment
Tome of Beasts Wild Shape (Mounts) - Added all viable options from the Monster Manual so they can be configured using the Wild Shape Adjustment
Volos Wild Shape (Mounts) - Added all viable options from the Monster Manual so they can be configured using the Wild Shape Adjustment
EN5ider - 07 - Natures Remedy
EN5ider - 09 - Circles of Power
EN5ider - 14 - Strands of Life
EN5ider - 16_18 - King and Country I and II
EN5ider - 21 - Forgotten Lore - Arcane
EN5ider - 22 - Art of Peace
EN5ider - 25 - Paladins Dark Vows
EN5ider - 31 - Forgotten Lore - Divine
EN5ider - 34 - Chessmasters and Commanders
EN5ider - 35 - Masters of the Wild
EN5ider - 39 - I Aint Afraid of No Ghosts
EN5ider - 42 - Heroes of the Night
EN5ider - 44 - Treasures Dark and Terrible
EN5ider - 57 - Scientific Sorcerery
EN5ider - 58 - It's Never Over
EN5ider - 60 - Sinister Spellbooks
EN5ider - 61 - Speaking with Fists
EN5ider - 63 - Fell Grafts_Alpha
EN5ider - 64 - Priests Misfortune
EN5ider - 65 - Priests Elemental Power
EN5ider - 70 - Children of Earth
EN5ider - 74 - Celestial Grafts

Enhancements & Changes

Temporary Hitpoint Pools added for Inspiring Leader Feat, reckless abandon (SCAG, Battlerager barbarian, lvl 6th), touch of death (SCAG, Long Death Monk, lvl 3rd), guardian soul(UA Ranger & Rogue, Ranger Primeval Guardian), radiant resilience
Tribality - Classes - Improved scripting
Added projectile category to the firearm weapons. Otherwise they do not add dex bonus to attack and damage
Unearthed Arcana Classes - updated to properly handled doubling of tool proficiencies for tools you are already proficient in
Cleric Death Domain Reaper ability to include Toll the Dead spell from Starter Spells.
Storm King's Thunder New Giant Racial variant traits added
Monster Manual > Created Racial Variants for: Demons and Devils to summon reinforcements, Bone Devil hooked polearm, Erinyes rope of entanglement, Ice Devil ice spear, Ettercap web garrotes, variant genies and much more.
Horde of the Dragon Queen - Replaced place holders with modified text.
Sword Coast Adventures Guide - Replaced placeholders with modified text.
Player Hand Book - Replaced placeholders with modified text
Shadow Warrior - Coded Cantrip Selection

Bug Fixes

Located rogue 'p5ePFCCP' source and resolved
Fixed issue with Tempest Domain giving out divine strike as level 17 instead of the Stormblade ability.
Volos - Lizard Folk was missing Hungry Jaws from the tracked resource list
Volos - Firbolg - Hidden Step was not being tracked
PHB - Charger Feat - +8 was being added to the attack roll and should have been the damage roll
PHB - Fixed wrath of the Storm, had one too many uses per day.
PHB - Fixed Stormborn, flight speed was being granted too early.
SCAG - Courtier background proficiency fixed
Homebrew - Mousefolk - was missing unarmed strike
Unearthed Arcana - Forge Domain - Soul of the Forge now triggering at level 6 correctly
Unearthed Arcana - Burglar Feat, Alchemist, gourmand, and master of disguise - correctly doubles proficiency if you already have thieves tools
Homebrew - Gunslinger - Bad News Gun damage was incorrect
Homebrew - Gunslinger - now correctly gaining Tinker's tool proficiency at level 3 upon choosing the archetype.
Homebrew - Gunslinger - now correctly adding proficiency to initiative at level 7 instead of level 3.
WarWiz issue - Lore Mastery archetype fixed.
LMOP - Spider Staff - damage was incorrect.
Unearched Arcana - Warforged - Fixed AC bonus.
DMG - Weapon - Wave - Added Melee, Martial, Thrown weapon tags.
MtG - Vampire - Added language Common to vamipre race.
VGtM - Tabaxi - Fixed claws to act as Unarmed Strikes for Monks, as per Sage Advice/Jeremy Crawford.

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v1.8 February 12, 2017

IMPORTANT: Please note that support was removed for Midgard Heroes by Kobold Press and Fifth Edition Feats from Total Party Kill Games in this release. Any characters created with this content will continue to function however no new characters will be able to be created using this content.

Official support for Midgard Heroes, Unlikely Heroes and Southlands Heroes is now available. Click HERE (http://www.wolflair.com/blog/2017/01/17/5th-edition-2-0-kobold-press/) for more details.

New Features

Added support for Unearthed Arcana - Artificer (Alchemist, Gunsmith)
Added support for Unearthed Arcana - Sorcerer (Favored Soul (2), Phoenix, Sea, Stone).
Added support for Unearthed Arcana - Monk (Way of the Kensai, Way of Tranquility)
Added support for Unearthed Arcana - Paladin (Oath of Conquest, Oath of Treachery)
Added support for Unearthed Arcana - Ranger (Horizon Walker)
Added support for Unearthed Arcana - Ranger (Primeval Guardian)
Added support for homebrew - Monk (Way of the Thundering Claw)
Note: The Ranger Archetypes are also implemented as Ranger Conclaves, to be used with the Sept 2016 Ranger from Unearched Arcana
Added support for Unearthed Arcana - Rogue (Scout)
New Adjustment - Extra Attunement (Add is and set how many extra attunements the character will have).


Enhancements & Changes

Removed support for Midrange Heroes as this is now an officially supported product and can be purchased via the Hero Lab store.
Removed support for 5th Edition Feats.
Changed the way Tool Proficiency is handled due to changes implemented in V2.0 of the core 5e SRD release.
Made changed to the Blood Hunter to better handle Crimson Rate.
Added a tracker and activation ability to the Fury of the Small Goblin ability.
Added sources to the Psionic spells.
Added sources for Druid Circles (Circle of Swords, The Emerald Enclave (Land), The Emerald Enclave (Moon), The Moonshea Circles, Circle of the Moon).
Fixed Adventure League tags on a number of items.
Removed the Half-Elf (variants) - these are now coded into the base race.


Bug Fixes

Fixed the way the Ranger (Sept 2016) abilities worked for Favored Enemy and Greater Favored Enemy.
Fixed Dual Wielder feat which was assigned the wrong damage.
Added Primeval Awareness feature to the Ranger (Sept 2016).
Resolved issue with Background Spy giving too many gaming proficiencies.
Resolved issue with Goliath not granting double its carrying capacity.
Resolved issue with innate spell casting for Yuan-Ti.
Resolved issue with adjustment - "Add Single Spell to Class/Race" adjustment to work again for classes.

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v1.7 December 14, 2016

New Features

Volo's Guide To Monsters - Player Races Added (Aasimar, Firbolg, Goliath, Kenku, Lizardfolk, Tabaxi, Triton)
Volo's Guide To Monsters - Monstrous Player Races Added (Bugbear, Goblin, Hobgoblin, Kobold, Orc, Yuan-Ti Pureblood)
Plane Shift: Zendikar - Player Races Added (Elf, Goblin, Vampire, Kor, Merfolk)
Plane Shift: Zendikar - Monsters Added (Archon of Redemption, Felidar, Kraken)
UA Druid Circles Added (Circle of Dreams, Circle of the Shepherd, Circle of Twilight)
UA Cleric Domains Added (Forge, Grave and Protection)
UA Bard Schools Added (College of Glamour, College of Whispers)
UA Barbarian Primal Path Added (Path of the Ancestral Guardian, Path of the Storm Herald, Path of the Zealot)
UA Fighter Martial Archtypes Added (Arcane Archer, Knight, Samurai)
UA Kits of Old - Added bard College (College of Swords)
UA The Faithful - Added Wizard Arcane Tradition (Theurgy)
UA Gothic Heroes - New Race: Revenant
UA Gothic Heroes - New Rogue Archetype: Inquisitive
UA Gothic Heroes - New Fighter Archetype: Monster Hunter.
DMG - Added Sentient Magic Items (Blackrazor, Moonblade, Wave, Whelm)
New Homebrew Race - Mousefolk
New Homebrew Cleric Domain (Exorcism)
SCAG - Half-Elf Variants Added
New Adjustment - Race, Custom Ability - once added lets you set the abilities name and add text desc up to 100 characters
New Adjustment - Race, Size Category - Select this adjustment to change your size category only. No other changes will be made to your character (This DOES NOT change equipment on a character)
New Optional Rule Added - "Always show the journal tab". This is useful for those that want to enter repuation gains or money for NPCs.
Tribality.com - New Warlock Otherwordly Patrons (The Archfey - The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Archfey - The Lord of the Hunt, The Archfey - The Good Fellow)

Enhancements & Changes

SCAG - Script added for ability Royal Envoy and spells for Radiant Sun Bolt and Searing Sunburst added.
Homebrew Race - Shardmind - added disease immunity to living construct trait. Goes for Warforged as
well.
UA - Eberron - added psychic resistance to Crystalline Mind trait
UA Barbarian - Path of the Storm Herald reworked.
Book of Lost Spells - Formatting updated for spells.
Updated the way proficient tools are added to characters to correctly reflect them on characters
5e Feats - Added scripting for multiple feats (there is still alot of unscripted feats)
Psionic Handbook - Scripting improvements made to Mystic class. Now able to select Fighting Style.

Bug Fixes

Gunslinger - Guns now use Dex instead of Str
UA Feats - Fixed the bonuses on some feats to trigger correctly
SCAG - Deep Gnome - Now able to select Sverfneblin Magic feat
SCAG - Deep Gnome - Was adding an extra INT to stats
PHB - Drow - Was missing Sunlight Sensitivity
UA Ranger Revised - Favored Enemy was not implemented correctly. This is now fixed to match the UA content
UA Ranger Revised - Multi-attack fro animal companion now correctly removed.
Yuan-Ti Pureblood - Had Orc stats, now correct
Darakhul Ghoul - now proficient with Bite
Potion of Fire Breath - Removed incorrect tag
Inheritor Background - Fixed Tool Proficiency
Master of Intrigue Background - Fixed Tool Proficiency
The Not Really Complete Tome of Spells - Fixed spell levels on multiple spells (Echoes and Battletide)
SCAG - Theurge Arcane Acolyte feature was not triggering. Timing changed
HOTDQ - Insignia of Claws - Script added and timing of script fixed
DMG - Rod of the Pact Keeper - Replaced with more functional version
UA Feats - Heavy Armor Expertise - Changed the way the stat increase displayed so its a permanent adjustment
PHB Feats - Heavy Armor Master - Changed the way the stat increase displayed so its a permanent adjustment
Fixed source entry on multiple races / classes and sub-classes to ensure they are not visible when the option is not selected in the character source configuration
Aarakocra - Unarmed Damage Added
Trollkin - Unarmed Damage Added
Corrected descriptive text on Favored Soul - Bonus Proficiency

[MNBlockHead]

Thank you for this. Going to try it out now.

[Korlen]

Human subrace only allows Variant. Standard need to be a selectable option.

[daplunk]

Thanks that appears to be a relic of the previous way we tried to implement this. Has fixed and will add to the next patch.

[Jacqual]

The download packs are not showing up on the updates page after setting up the url you have listed above on my PC. But it worked fine I believe on my iPad.

[daplunk]

Did you restart HL? Otherwise it will not appear. Should look like this.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a60/Plunk1984/2016-02-21%2012_38_56-Microsoft%20Edge_zpsmhulu9we.png

[Vilhjalmr]

The data files could not be loaded due to errors. Hero Lab will now attempt to load them in recovery mode. Once loaded, you can access the editor as normal to correct any errors.

The following errors occurred:

File: non-srdstuff.user (line 10) - Thing - Invalid unique id 'bckWIL?' for attribute 'id'

Getting this from a clean 5e install with community pack applied.

EDIT: Well that was certainly odd. I deleted all of the 5e files, re-downloaded, and then added the community files again, and it worked fine the second time around.

[ShadowChemosh]

Getting this from a clean 5e install with community pack applied.
That file is not from the community pack. Community files start with COM_Pack5e.

[daplunk]

You are not using a clean install by the looks of it. This is evident by the file name and naming convention of the thing that is reporting the error. Everything we have created will have a 5C in the thing name.

Check your 5e folder for a file names non-srdstuff.user and move it or rename it. Then try load the pack again.

[Vilhjalmr]

Yeah I honestly have no idea where that file must have come from. As I said in the edit, worked second time. :D

[Kairos]

Brilliant, folks. I appreciate your hard work here.

[Jacqual]

OK got it to work, I only see the Acolyte background have the other ones not in yet? But from what I can see great job folks.

[PinkRose]

If you only see Acolyte then you didn't load the Community Pack correctly. I see all PH Backgrounds.

However, there is an error on the background page.
If you select Outlander, or any other one with an Origin, if you select your Personality Traits, and your Ideal, Bond and Flaw in that order, Origin falls off the bottom of the page and you can't add it, until you delete some of the other background things,so it frees up space. Using 1366x768 resolution.

[Jacqual]

Where on my PC do these files actually go when I go into the Hero Lab folder in my C:/Program (x86)/Hero Lab I cannot find anything that says 5th edition what am I missing?

EDIT:
On further checking this is doing the same on my iPad as well on both I performed a cut and paste on the URL posted earlier in this thread, and it indicates that everything is downloaded. I just cannot find the actual files on my PC and I am not even going to try on my iPad. For further info I am running windows 10. I am so confused at this point, as to where to actually look.

EDIT: I got it to work good on my iPad but is there a way to set the new stuff to appear on already created characters on the PC?
Thank you for bearing with me.

[ShadowChemosh]

Where on my PC do these files actually go when I go into the Hero Lab folder in my C:/Program (x86)/Hero Lab I cannot find anything that says 5th edition what am I missing?

EDIT:
On further checking this is doing the same on my iPad as well on both I performed a cut and paste on the URL posted earlier in this thread, and it indicates that everything is downloaded. I just cannot find the actual files on my PC and I am not even going to try on my iPad. For further info I am running windows 10. I am so confused at this point, as to where to actually look.
To make sure it loaded go to "Tools->Manage Third Party Updates". If installed and you restarted you most likely didn't turn on the new Source Options.

Open HL 5e game up and on the "Configure Your Hero" window make sure that you have checked marked "5e Players Handbook".
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[ShadowChemosh]

However, there is an error on the background page.
If you select Outlander, or any other one with an Origin, if you select your Personality Traits, and your Ideal, Bond and Flaw in that order, Origin falls off the bottom of the page and you can't add it, until you delete some of the other background things,so it frees up space. Using 1366x768 resolution.
Issues with the UI are for LW to work on not the community. Please report this as a BUG (http://www.wolflair.com/support/report-5th-edition-bug/?project=5e) to LW. :)

[ShadowChemosh]

EDIT: I got it to work good on my iPad but is there a way to set the new stuff to appear on already created characters on the PC?
Thank you for bearing with me.
Press "CTRL-K" to open the Configure Your Hero window.

[dafrca]

Read directions, followed directions, Loaded it, it worked jut fine.

Thank You All !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT: For the slower folks in the room, what is the "The (Not Really) Complete Tome of Spells "?

[panda]

woohoo ! :):):)

[ShadowChemosh]

EDIT: For the slower folks in the room, what is the "The (Not Really) Complete Tome of Spells "?
When I did the sources I had to google it. It appears to be a community project to expand 5e list of available spells. From what I can tell its a totally free PDF to download HERE (https://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1430/96/1430962668508.pdf).

[Frodie]

That is very cool that someone converted the old Priest’s and Wizard’s Spell Compendiums. I was just thinking of putting mine on ebay, but maybe I can still get some use out of them!

I wounder how hard it would be to convert the old Great Net Spellbook and the Great Net Prayerbook! - http://istari.org/gnba/spells/html/index.html

That would be cool, I might start on that, just a ton of copy/pasting, lol.

[dafrca]

When I did the sources I had to google it. It appears to be a community project to expand 5e list of available spells. From what I can tell its a totally free PDF to download HERE (https://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1430/96/1430962668508.pdf).

Thanks for both the answer and the link.

I should have Googled it myself though. Silly me. :D

[liz]

FYI - I've stickied this thread (temporarily) so that people know this is available. I've also linked to the thread in the General Hero Lab Support & Community Resources (http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=54821) thread. Once it becomes fairly common knowledge that this is available, I'll remove the sticky so that we don't end up with a sticky fest at the top of the forum and people will be able to find the thread through the Resources links. :)

[daplunk]

Thanks Liz :) Very helpful

[TheBullDog]

Shouldn't the Variable human give me 2x +1s for attributes?<

Also,

Death domain is listing Life domain stats for Clerics

Urban Bounty Hunter is missing from backgrounds.


Edit: Nvm, source material not implemented yet. Was left over from my custom material

[daplunk]

Per the original post please ensure you post issues with the official process. This will ensure we don't lose issues in the forums.

Known Issue List
Click HERE (https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues) for a list of known issues.
Click HERE (https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/new) to report a new issue or request a new enhancement.

Report Issue / Request Feature
Click HERE (https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/new) to report a new issue or request a new enhancement.

[TheBullDog]

I missed that, moved my comment over to Github

[MardukBathory]

message removed

[TheBullDog]

Whats next?
The team are currently working on the following:

All 'things' from Hoard of the Dragon Queen
All 'things' from Princes of the Apocalypse
All monsters from The Monster Manual
All spells from The (Not Really) Complete Tome of Spells (95% complete)
All spells from The Book of Lost Spells



Monster Manual: Just the monsters? or will the villain stuff be added as well? i.e. Death domain and Oath Breaker paladin

[PinkRose]

Are the SCAG Backgrounds on the radar?

[daplunk]

@PinkRose - Absolutely ill get them added in the near future. Forgot about them sorry.

[Colen]

If you only see Acolyte then you didn't load the Community Pack correctly. I see all PH Backgrounds.

However, there is an error on the background page.
If you select Outlander, or any other one with an Origin, if you select your Personality Traits, and your Ideal, Bond and Flaw in that order, Origin falls off the bottom of the page and you can't add it, until you delete some of the other background things,so it frees up space. Using 1366x768 resolution.

Thanks for reporting this, this will be fixed in the next release of the 5e SRD files. :)

[mhwittek]

It is done! Thanks Daplunk! :-)

[mhwittek]

It is done! Thanks Daplunk!

[daplunk]

There's alot more than me to thank! This was a community effort with at least 10 people helping.

So a HUGE thanks to everyone who participated.

Leaving it up to them to make themselves known however ;)

[Krimson]

This is fantastic. Exactly what I needed to make the purchase of the 5e datafile worth it to me. Thanks to everyone who made this possible.

[dafrca]

There's alot more than me to thank! This was a community effort with at least 10 people helping.

So a HUGE thanks to everyone who participated.

Leaving it up to them to make themselves known however ;)

Well a "Thank You" to the Mystery Nine along with the thanks to you daplunk. :D

[MardukBathory]

DaPlunk, I think I love you.

[Starchildren3317]

Worked like a charm! DaPlunk and the rest of the community who worked so hard on this...THANK YOU!!!!

[liz]

There's alot more than me to thank! This was a community effort with at least 10 people helping.

So a HUGE thanks to everyone who participated.

Leaving it up to them to make themselves known however ;)

Tell your GMs next game that Liz from Lone Wolf thinks you deserve an inspiration point, or 2, or 3, or 100. :)

[daplunk]

New Release Available

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: The names of some 'things' had to be changed in this release. Simply re-add the 'thing' back in using the character editor.

v1.1 February 24, 2016

New Features

The Book of Lost Spells 5e - 706 new spells
The (Not Really) Complete Tome of Spells - 470 new spells (Only A-C currently assigned to classes)

Enhancements and Changes

Source files updated to ensure clarity between Official and 3rd Party source material
DEITIES - Deities from SCAG. The Drow Pantheon (Eelistraee, Kiaransalee, Lolth, Selvetarm, Vhaeraun)
BACKGROUNDS(SCAG) - 13 new backgrounds added
CLASS OPTION - Human Variant - This has been made Obsolete. Replaced with in official HL release.

Bug Fixes

FEAT(Elemental Adept) - Fire add as options
FEAT(Spell Sniper) - Pre-req now recognizes Warlock spells
BACKGROUNDS(Tool Proficiency Display Issue) - Tool proficiency's that are hard coded will now be visible to the player. This is a temp work-around as this is not currently displayed by default.
BACKGROUND(Charlatan) - Missing tool proficiency added
BACKGROUND(Spy) - Equipment added, tools corrected, proficiency corrected
BACKGROUND(Naming Conventions) - Some naming conventions were incorrect and had to be fixed. This will impact the following: bBMilitiaA updated to b5CMilitia | btSdIndepe updated to bt5CSdInde | btBDefuse updated to bt5CDefus
CLASS(Naming Conventions) - Some naming conventions were incorrect and had to be fixed. This will impact the following: cClrTempes updated to c5CClrTemp
CLASS(Wizard Schools) - Will not appear if the Community Pack is not selected.
SPELLS(Duplication) - Many duplicate spells removed. There are a few variant spells of the same name, have added the source book abbreviation in brackets after those spell names to assist in differentiation.

[MNBlockHead]

Even though the subrace section no longer appears, I'm still getting a validation error that I need to select a subrace. This is with a character created before the update. Other than this validation error, everything is as I want it. Can I ignore a validation error and make it go away?

[daplunk]

I can fix that next release. It's because the old Human Variant is still actually there just marked as Obsolete which is triggering the validation error.

You can ignore it or...

Open the Editor > Open COM_5ePack_PHB - Races.user > Delete the following:
Races > Subrace > Obsolete - Human Variant - Obsolete
Save the changes and restart Hero Labs.

I'll get this fixed next release.

[TheBullDog]

I presume not everything from Sword Coast is implemented yet, or did Warlock: Other Worldly Patron: The Undying get missed?

Also curious about when DMG material such as Death Domain and Oath Breaker might be planned?

[Mergon]

daplunk:

Is there any plans to add material from the DMG?

Specifically the Eldarin, the Aasimar, and the Death domain off the top of my head.

[daplunk]

Raise requests in the Github and it will be added to the ToDo list.

Even better, create the things in a custom.user file and submit it via GitHub and Ill add it in.

I'm back at work now with a 4 week old also so expect my personal output to start to slow down. :(

[dafrca]

Oh my, the fun of a new born. I remember those days. Enjoy it while you can. The years fly by so fast with kids. Trust me. :-)

[Gord]

Thanks to everybody who worked on this and is still working on it. After fighting with the download, I clued into the fact that I shouldn't be using the URL in the Setup guide (since it was for Pathfinder) and should instead use the one that was clearly posted. It's a good thing that game store owners don't ever really need to read instructions to stay in business for a long time.

[ShadowChemosh]

Thanks to everybody who worked on this and is still working on it. After fighting with the download, I clued into the fact that I shouldn't be using the URL in the Setup guide (since it was for Pathfinder) and should instead use the one that was clearly posted. It's a good thing that game store owners don't ever really need to read instructions to stay in business for a long time.
Yeah... Didn't have time to update that document to 5e yet. Its on the to-do list. :)

Update: I updated the document to cover Pathfinder, d20 and 5e now. Including giving all three URL's in the pdf. Sorry about that...

[Vilhjalmr]

I just realized Chromatic Orb wasn't available... Oversight or intentional? I apologize if I missed something somewhere. :)

[daplunk]

Will be restored in 1.2 which is coming within the next 24 hours. It's there just incorrectly marked as hidden.

If you want to see the changes early you can see them HERE (https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/wiki/3.-Pending-Changes).

[Vilhjalmr]

Will be restored in 1.2 which is coming within the next 24 hours. It's there just incorrectly marked as hidden.

If you want to see the changes early you can see them HERE (https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/wiki/3.-Pending-Changes).

Excellent. Thanks again once more to everyone involved in this - literally a DMs dream come true. :D

[daplunk]

NEW RELEASE AVAILABLE - v1.2 March 2, 2016

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: With the new release comes risk that previous characters will generate errors when loaded. If this happens simply re-add the broken element to your character.

New Features

DUNGEON MASTERS GUIDE (Race) - Eladrin added
DUNGEON MASTERS GUIDE (Race) - Aasimar added
MONSTER MANUAL - 128 Monsters added. Currently heavy Work In Progress (Monsters listed are complete): Beholder; Death Tyrant; Spectator; Needle Blight; Twig Blight; Vine Blight; Pixie; Hook Horror; Kenku; Quaggoth; Myconid Sprout; Myconid Adult; Myconid;Sovereign and Piercer (some bugs needs LW).
TOOL (Gaming Sets) Added Dragonchess Set & Three-Dragon Ante
DEITIES (SCAG) - Added all deities Pantheons from SCAG : Dwarven, Elven, Orc, Halfling and Gnome Pantheon
RACE (DMG) - Added Aasimar race and Eladrin subrace.
SPELLS - The (Not Really) Complete Tome of Spells - 470 new spells (all assigned to classes)
HELPER - Added functionality to make any weapon/ammmo 'Silvered' or magic and Silvered.
ADJUSTMENT - Added "Equipment, Notes" that allows you to append up to 100 characters to a selected piece of gear description text.


Enhancements and Changes

BACKGROUNDS (PHB) Changed background special abilities Uniqueness flag to 'No' enabling the special abilities to display on the Backgrounds tab as well as the Specials tab.
RACE (Tiefling) The official Tiefling was unable to link to learn Hellish Rebuke as part of Infernal Legacy as the spell was not included in the SRD. We have therefore created a community copy of Tiefling and linked the spell correctly. Users who have made Tiefling characters previously may need to update their characters to use the new Tiefling 'thing' within Hero Labs. This can be done by simply "re-selecting" the Tiefling race on the "Race" tab after opening up your character.
The (Not Really) Complete Tome of Spells - 470 new spells all assigned to classes.


Bug Fixes

BACKGROUNDS (ab5CPosPri, ab5CRetain, ab5CBadRep) These special abilities were created as Background Custom Abilities instead of General Abilities. Changed these in line with everything else which fixed their display issue.
BACKGROUNDS (Clan Crafter) Fixed Tool Proficiency selection.
BACKGROUNDS (Far Traveller) Why Are You Here options updated. Duplicate entries for '5' resolved.
BACKGROUNDS (Inheritor) Fixed Tool Prof pick.
BACKGROUNDS (Inheritor) Fixed Inheritance pick.
BACKGROUNDS (Hermit) Fixed Pilgrim roll value to 8.
BACKGROUNDS (SCAG) Correctly assigned Ideals, Bonds, Flaws.
BACKGROUNDS (SCAG) Far Traveller roll corrected
CLASS (Rogue) - Fixed Arcane Trickster to only allow selection of 2 cantrips instead of 3.
FEAT (Spell Sniper) - Modified text on Cantrip selection to set pick to 1 cantrip.
FEAT (Medium Armor Master) - Corrected pre-requisite check to correctly check for Medium Armor Proficiency.
FEAT (War Caster) - Now correctly recognizing the Warlock class in the pre-requisite check.
RACE (Obsolete Human Variant) - The original community Human Variant was made obsolete on 24/02/16 with the release of an official Human Variant. ra5CHumVar was made Obsolete but this caused validation errors as the Human still thought a sub-race had to be picked. Have therefore removed 'ra5CHumVar' resolving the validation error.
SPELL (Chromatic Orb) - Removed this from *Hidden, now available to characters again.
DEITIES (Drow Pantheon) - Things ID of drow deities were changed to follow naming convention.

[MNBlockHead]

Daplunk, you are my hero.

[PinkRose]

Having an issue installing.
Races seem to be borked.
COM_5ePack_DMG-Races.user
line 3
line 11
line 19
line 35
line 45
Thing duplicate record encountered

So I can't load anything besides the SRD

[ShadowChemosh]

Having an issue installing.
Races seem to be borked.
COM_5ePack_DMG-Races.user
line 3
line 11
line 19
line 35
line 45
Thing duplicate record encountered

So I can't load anything besides the SRD
When you get an error message you can RIGHT click on the window and copy the full error message and then paste it here. That will let us debug better.

As your have access to BETA software that you pulled down from GitHub you will/can run into this issue. You pulled down a file that has sense been renamed "COM_5ePack_DMG-Races.user".

My advice would be to go into your data\herolab\5e folder and delete "COM_5ePack_DMG - All.user" (old file name). You should be good.

If not good go into that folder again and delete ALL files that start with COM_*.*. Then re-download and install the v1.2 Community Pack.

[daplunk]

Try delete / move all the *.user files from: C:\ProgramData\Hero Lab\data\5e and reload the Community Pack.

I had the same error but you and I are both working with different files to everyone else. I think this was due to a file-name change on the DMG stuff during the creation stage.

Once you do that it works fine.

[dafrca]

Thank You Community Pack Team :-)

[solomani]

To make sure it loaded go to "Tools->Manage Third Party Updates". If installed and you restarted you most likely didn't turn on the new Source Options.

Open HL 5e game up and on the "Configure Your Hero" window make sure that you have checked marked "5e Players Handbook".
4427

I added the source, restarted but I am not seeing the community pack. I am using the OSX version. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[MagicSN]

Hi!

While I am currently staying with my own implementation of the 5e Datafiles (they are more complete than the offical ones, I cannot change the character sheet with the official one which is a "must have" for me personally, and it would be a lot of work to convert all my houserule-stuff) there is SOME stuff I might be able to contribute:

- I have must of the stuff from the "Primeval Thule" campaign setting implemented. Assuming the authors do not mind (I could ask them) I could share this and it could be converted to the format of the official datafiles?
- I have most of the "Arcana" articles new stuff converted (though I guess this again is not covered by the SRD, so a "no go"???)

MagicSN

[ShadowChemosh]

I added the source, restarted but I am not seeing the community pack. I am using the OSX version. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
Adding source I assume you mean you added the URL. Did you download and install the pack after doing that?

The first post HERE (http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost.php?p=224538&postcount=1) in this thread has a PDF with a detailed install guide. Did you do all those steps? Do you see the pack installed when you go to "Tools->Manage Third Party Updates"?

[ShadowChemosh]

- I have must of the stuff from the "Primeval Thule" campaign setting implemented. Assuming the authors do not mind (I could ask them) I could share this and it could be converted to the format of the official datafiles?
- I have most of the "Arcana" articles new stuff converted (though I guess this again is not covered by the SRD, so a "no go"???)

MagicSN
You can't copyright the mechanics so only part that can't be shared is the "fluff" descriptions.

The bigger issue is unless you based your authoring kit logic off of Pathfinder all the base components are going to be different. Tags, fields, everything will be different. Trying to convert from your game system to 5e would be most likely more work than starting from scratch.

Even in systems like Pathfinder that came from d20 you can't just move a d20 .user file to Pathfinder or a Pathfinder to d20.

So comes down to how close is your game system to Pathfinder?

[cryptoknight]

It's not... I believe he actually based it on the 4e data files and structure/the system creation kit license.

[ShadowChemosh]

It's not... I believe he actually based it on the 4e data files and structure/the system creation kit license.
That is what I assumed from reading posts in the past. In that case with all the required changes it maybe harder than its worth.... :( :(

[Lord Gorchnik]

First of all thanks for the fantastic work with this community pack. Unfortunately I seem to be having some issues with choosing my background. I downloaded and installed according to your PDF instructions in the 1st post. However, no matter what character race/class combo I make, I still only have the option to choose Acolyte in the background section.

http://i.imgur.com/rkfY0bE.png

[daplunk]

To make sure it loaded go to "Tools->Manage Third Party Updates". If installed and you restarted you most likely didn't turn on the new Source Options.

Open HL 5e game up and on the "Configure Your Hero" window make sure that you have checked marked "5e Players Handbook".

http://forums.wolflair.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4427&d=1456030681

[Lord Gorchnik]

Helpful post

Glorious. Thanks for your assistance.

[MagicSN]

You can't copyright the mechanics so only part that can't be shared is the "fluff" descriptions.

The bigger issue is unless you based your authoring kit logic off of Pathfinder all the base components are going to be different. Tags, fields, everything will be different. Trying to convert from your game system to 5e would be most likely more work than starting from scratch.

Even in systems like Pathfinder that came from d20 you can't just move a d20 .user file to Pathfinder or a Pathfinder to d20.

So comes down to how close is your game system to Pathfinder?

As the pathfinder dataset does not include
Full datfiles I went with Authoring kit
Instead, I wanted full control of what I can
Do wirh the code (and for some features
as the charsheet I needed that).

Well, assuming the Thule people do not
Object to full text at least there you could
Profit all else I fear the implementation will
Be often very different.

Best regards,
Steffen

[solomani]

Adding source I assume you mean you added the URL. Did you download and install the pack after doing that?

The first post HERE (http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost.php?p=224538&postcount=1) in this thread has a PDF with a detailed install guide. Did you do all those steps? Do you see the pack installed when you go to "Tools->Manage Third Party Updates"?

Yes I did - added the new update source :
http://i.imgur.com/nhNauS1.png

Restarted but I don't see any 5e community options :
http://i.imgur.com/CfAxvCm.png

[thecosmicgoose]

this totally rocks my socks. just made the 20 bucks i spent to buy the SRD package worth it. deepest and most sincere thanks to those working on this.

[Mathias]

Yes I did - added the new update source
They list an http:// in those instructions that's not in the URL you've entered.

[Gord]

Yeah... Didn't have time to update that document to 5e yet. Its on the to-do list. :)

Update: I updated the document to cover Pathfinder, d20 and 5e now. Including giving all three URL's in the pdf. Sorry about that...

Not sure why you are apologizing for my mistake in not reading properly. Perhaps you have some Canadian blood in you. ;)

[Mergon]

Yes I did - added the new update source :
http://i.imgur.com/nhNauS1.png

Restarted but I don't see any 5e community options :
http://i.imgur.com/CfAxvCm.png

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't D&D 5e Community Pack (v1.2) what you are looking for???

[ShadowChemosh]

Not sure why you are apologizing for my mistake in not reading properly. Perhaps you have some Canadian blood in you. ;)
Because the document that use to be pointed to referenced only Pathfinder and a Pathfinder update URL. I have sense changed it to reference d20, Pathfinder, and 5e now.

I was sorry that the document was "out" of date and causing some confusion... :)

Hey be happy you got me on a nice day. Most days I am ready to tear someone's head off! :eek:

[ShadowChemosh]

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't D&D 5e Community Pack (v1.2) what you are looking for???
To be fair that list of "downloads" keep growing especially if you have the Pathfinder URL installed also.

This is an area I am "hoping" to have a "search" feature where a person could type in 5e and see just the 5e downloads. ;)

Note: Colen is most likely cursing my name right now....

[solomani]

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't D&D 5e Community Pack (v1.2) what you are looking for???

Doh! I am crazy, thank you. Is it possible to retroactively add this to an existing character or I need to re-create the character from scratch?

[ShadowChemosh]

Doh! I am crazy, thank you. Is it possible to retroactively add this to an existing character or I need to re-create the character from scratch?
Open your character and press "CTRL-K" in the "Configure Your Hero" window check mark at least the "5e Players Handbook". Feel free to turn on other sources if you want. Once check marked your existing character will be able to see the new Things. :)

[solomani]

Open your character and press "CTRL-K" in the "Configure Your Hero" window check mark at least the "5e Players Handbook". Feel free to turn on other sources if you want. Once check marked your existing character will be able to see the new Things. :)

Thank you sir!

[Lord Gorchnik]

I have been making so much good use of this so far. One question I have is do you happen to plan on adding the Death divine domain for cleric characters along with the spells it offers from the DM guide? I GM ruled my brother to play with that domain and was sad to see it not in the list Divine Domains.

No big deal if not but that would certainly be amazing!

[Mergon]

I posted a suggestion on the GIT site for materials from the DMG. I'd requested Eldarin, Aasimar, and Death domain. So far we ahve recieved Eldarin and Aasimar. :)

I created the Death domain for my own use. I'll have to take another look at what I created and see if I used too many fast kludges. :)

[daplunk]

If you have created the Death Domain already send it over and I can get it added in the next pack.

ATM were are busy trying to add the 105 missing monsters which is time consuming to say the least ;)

This applies for anything you want added guys. If you have done it already and think it belongs in the community pack send it to me and we can update it for everyone.

[Lord Gorchnik]

I posted a suggestion on the GIT site for materials from the DMG. I'd requested Eldarin, Aasimar, and Death domain. So far we ahve recieved Eldarin and Aasimar. :)

I created the Death domain for my own use. I'll have to take another look at what I created and see if I used too many fast kludges. :)

That would be fantastic. He has the book but always forgets what Ray of Enfeeblement does since it isn't in the spell list of Hero Lab. You guys are amazing, keep up the fantastic work for the community!

[cryptoknight]

I'd be more excited to get the Swashbuckler in there.. and to find a way that I can put the missing text... I get that you have placeholders so as to avoid WotC issues, but I'd like to find a way to put in all that text because it's annoying to have to look it all up in books.

[Gwaithador]

This is extraordinary work.

[daplunk]

Instead of putting the text back in. Which is going to be a pain to individually maintain. Paraphrase text and send it to us via a github issue. It needs to be min 20% different from original text.

This way the whole community benefits .

[seffer]

Instead of putting the text back in. Which is going to be a pain to individually maintain. Paraphrase text and send it to us via a github issue. It needs to be min 20% different from original text.

This way the whole community benefits .

Hi.

Total noob here. Can you please point me to a page that shows exactly how to do this? Or if there isn't a good resource, would you please provide more specific instructions? I'd like to contribute some of the missing fluff/placeholder text (which I'll be sure to change up a bit).

Thanks!

[ShadowChemosh]

Hi.

Total noob here. Can you please point me to a page that shows exactly how to do this? Or if there isn't a good resource, would you please provide more specific instructions? I'd like to contribute some of the missing fluff/placeholder text (which I'll be sure to change up a bit).

Thanks!
I would recommend reading the Glossary of Terms (http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost.php?p=68419&postcount=1) for the Editor. Then check out FAQ#2 (http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost.php?p=69392&postcount=4) for all the places to learn about the editor including YouTube videos.

The first YouTube video HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfExyfjlzNc) would be very good as it shows how to open the editor do some basic editing.

[daplunk]

If easier and if you are just writing fluff text I'm happy for you to submit it to us in a text document / word document.

Name of Thing: What is the fluff text written for
The Fluff Text: Ensure is it min 20% diff from original.

Then simply raise a new issue over HERE (https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/new). You can drag your file straight into the ticket and it will upload and attach.

I will then take care of the replacement in the editor.

[seffer]

If easier and if you are just writing fluff text I'm happy for you to submit it to us in a text document / word document.

Name of Thing: What is the fluff text written for
The Fluff Text: Ensure is it min 20% diff from original.

Then simply raise a new issue over HERE (https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/new). You can drag your file straight into the ticket and it will upload and attach.

I will then take care of the replacement in the editor.

This is just the sort of thing I was hoping for. I'll submit something in the next couple of days.

Thanks!

[daplunk]

Mechanics are ok btw and don't need to be changed.

[cyberqat]

HI,
In my world, Unarmed Strike is a finesse weapon (you cna use STR or DEX with it.)

What do I need to edit to make that chnage? Can I do it in the Tools->editor or do I need to edit raw xml?

[Mick McKee]

Thank you for all the hard work that's been put into this :)

I have some questions/issues about:

-Jack of All Trades(player's Handbook 54). Should it not, in most cases, add that bonus to Initiative?

-Additional Magical Secrets(Player's Handbook 55). This should not count against the number of bard spells known by the Bard.

[daplunk]

If you need to log issues / queries for Community Pack content please do it through the GitHub. This will ensure your issue gets addressed and tracked.

https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/new

[Fierce Rabbit]

I can't get this to work. I follow the instructions in the pdf, but the updates don't show up when I restart and check for updates. When I go to Manage Third Party Updates, it says there are none installed.

[Ghaleon]

having a tough time with this content on ipad, followed the instructions but the info does not display, any suggestions for what i am missing?

[Mergon]

Make sure that your go the the character tab, click on Configure Hero, then check off the components you want to use.

[ShadowChemosh]

having a tough time with this content on ipad, followed the instructions but the info does not display, any suggestions for what i am missing?
As Mergon says. If that fails then we need "more" information. What part are you stuck on? Did you get the download onto the iPad? Did you get the URL entered? Are you in 5e and not Pathfinder? Are you getting any errors....

Pictures are always great so that we can see what you see...

[Aaron]

Daplunk, for the Duel Wielder feat, your script appears to be assigning the wrong version of the tag. Helper.TwoWpLight is meant to be assigned to weapons to exempt them from the "off hand weapon must be light" rule. Since you want to exempt all such weapons, you are correctly working in the hero context, but in that case, you need to assign Hero.TwoWpLight.

[daplunk]

Thanks, i noticed this error in my game on Friday night. Will raise an issue and get the team to look into it.

[ShadowChemosh]

Daplunk, for the Duel Wielder feat, your script appears to be assigning the wrong version of the tag. Helper.TwoWpLight is meant to be assigned to weapons to exempt them from the "off hand weapon must be light" rule. Since you want to exempt all such weapons, you are correctly working in the hero context, but in that case, you need to assign Hero.TwoWpLight.
Confusion was from the original post HERE (http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?p=224593&highlight=TwoWpLight#post224593) where you said use Helper.TwoWpLight.

The release notes do say "Hero" not Helper. So confusion all around. :( Thanks for getting back to us. :)

[Mergon]

Btw, Duel Wield should be Dual Wield . . .

Spelling error. :)

[sothron]

When will the duergar subrace be added? I'm kinda surprised all the subraces from the books have not been added yet.

[Mergon]

I am not certain, but I think duergar has been added to the 5e Community pack, but just not released yet. I think it will be in the 1.3 release, but I may be confusing it with a different subrace.

[sothron]

I hope it has. I am trying to get character sheets together for my group and I need the duergar for my own paladin. Really appreciate whoever put it in there if it is in there.

[daplunk]

Which book has the Duergar in it? This was pretty high on my to do list as my party were deep in the under dark until some wish magic went wrong.

[Mergon]

It's in Sword Coast Adventurers Guide (SCAG).

I thought I'd done it for my own use, but had it confused with the Deep Gnome which I have done.

[daplunk]

I'll make sure it's done today. Pretty keen to have Scag complete. I just added all the class options in so race options are up next.

[Mergon]

Just working on my SCAG stuff atm. Want me to post a Zip of my user file to GIT when I have finished?

Arcane domain, Tiefling variant material.

Warning: Some of the Tiefling traits (Cateyes, 6 fingers, ect. have been house rulled so you may want to make them conform to the SCAG rules).

[daplunk]

Send it over and I'll have a look. :)

[Mergon]

Like I said, working on it atm. Not sure if I got the bugs out of Arcane Mastery for the Arcane Mastery feature.

I know i was having issues with it and got side tracked by a different issue. Can't remember if I got back to it. :)

Buildign a 17th level character to test it atm.

[sothron]

Thank you so much for making sure the duergar are added as a subrace option. :) Can I ask when it will uploaded for all to use?

[Mergon]

I was right, I hadn't finished the Arcane Mastery feature. I'm up to the point where I can select the appropriate spells and they are added to the cleric's spell selection, but when you add them, they are not begin added for free.

Up to now the scripts were working fine, but they were for lower level spells, not 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th . . .

<Troubleshooting cap time>

[Mergon]

Anyone know if the Helper.Free tag can be used on spells over 5th level? The Eval Rules script I'm using works fine up to 5th level spells, then it seems to not work.

[daplunk]

Not sure on a public release date however you can always download the files from the link below and copy them into your 5e files.
https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab

[Mergon]

Resolved my issue by simply adding 4 extra spell memorization slots to cover the 4 extra spells . . .

This is the way it is handled for Bardic Secrets class feature.

[sothron]

If someone posted a duergar race file I can't find it. Am I missing it?

[daplunk]

I've done it. It's in the github link above. Download and copy the files into your 5e folder. If you don't know what I'm talking about your better off waiting for us to release the next update which will likely follow shortly after the next official HL update.

[solomani]

Hiya, any idea on when Arcana domain will be added? In fact, is there a tutorial somewhere on this - happy to try and add it myself.

Thanks.

[panda]

Someone just send us the arcane domain but we still have to look into it

[solomani]

Someone just send us the arcane domain but we still have to look into it

Great :)

[lowew79]

Firstly, thanks so much for doing this work for the community! I do not mean to sound impatient, but I have a question/request. Has anyone done the elemental evil races yet? Again I'm not complaining, just wondering if there is some way to activate it and I missed it. I'm technology challenged, thanks!

[daplunk]

Jeez some people o.0

/kidding :)

They are partially complete. Items are made, scripting outstanding on some things.

https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/archive/master.zip

You can download the stuff we hve done using the link above. You just download and copy the files into the respective 5e folder that the editor opens files from.

[Jeffrey Fox]

Thank you all for the work you're doing.

[solomani]

Thank you all for the work you're doing.

Indeed, good job.

[ShadowChemosh]

Posting this for daplunk who has limited access to internet...

v1.3 March 26, 2016

Important Note: Many of the classes & feats added are text only. They have no scripts yet making them work.

New Features

Community added monsters added as stock files. This means going to the menu "Gamemaster->Show Encounter Builder" will let you quickly and easily added monsters to a encounter.
Monsters added: Scarecrow, Half Ogre, Water Wierd, Slaad Tadpole, Red Slaad, Blue Slaad, Green Slaad, Gray Slaad, Death Slaad, Chasme, Goristro, Manes, Shadow Demon, Yochlol, Winged Kobold, Helmed horror, Grick Alpha, Grell, Quaggoth Spore Servant, Gnoll Pack Lord, Gnoll Fang Of Yeenoghu, Gobelin Boss, Hobgoblin Captain, Hobgoblin Warlord, Young Remorahaz, Orc War Chief, Orc Eye of Gruumsh, Orog, Faery Dragon, Flameskull, Flumph, Gas spore, Kuo-toa, Kuo-Toa Archpriest, Kuo-toa Whip, Bone Naga, Nothic, Peryton, Smoke and Mud Mephits, Githyanki Warrior, Githyanki Knight, Githzerai Monk, Githzerai Zerth, Umber Hulk, Fire Snake, Yuan-Ti Abomination, Yuan-ti Malison, Yuan-Ti, Sahuagin Priestess + Sahuagin Baron, Lizardfolk (Shaman), Lizardfolk (King/Queen), Mezzoloth, Nycaloth, UIltroloth, Fomorian, Galeb Duhr, Dao, Marid, Revenant, Beholder Zombie, Arcanaloth, Mezzoloth, Nycaloth, UIltroloth, Empyrean, Avatar of Death, Larva, & Giant Fly.
DMG added - Death Domain, Weapon of Warning, magic items up to E & Saddle of the Cavalier.
PHB Added - Spells: Secret Chest and Magic Aura
Added 162 feats from TPG Games Fifth Edition Feats. Pre-requirements need to be scripted. Feat special abilities need to be scripted.
Added a number of Homebrew Items commonly seem in use by Jarlaxle Baenre. https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/2iv08w/magic_items_belonging_to_jarlaxle_part_1/
Sword Coast Adventures Guide classes added: Barbarian - Primal Path (Path of the Battlerager), Primal Path (Path of the Totem Warrior); Bard - College (College of Fochlucan), College (College of New Olamn), College (College of the Herald); Cleric - Arcana; Druid - The Moonshea Circles, The Emerald Enclave (Moon), The Emerald Enclave (Land); Fighter - Banneret (Purple Dragon Knight); Sorcerer - Sorcerous Origin (Storm Sorcery); Warlock - Otherwordly Patron (The Undying); Paladin - Oath of the Crown; Monk - Way of the Long Death, Way of the Sun Soul, Order of the Yellow Moon, Way of Hin Fist, The Dark Moon; Rogue - Mastermind, swashbuckler. NOTE: No scripting complete yet.
Sword Coast Adventures Guide tools added - Musical Instruments (Birdpipes, Glaur, Hand Drum, Longhorn, Shawm, Songhorn, Tantan, Thelarr, Tocken, Wargong, Yarting, Zulkoon). NOTE: No scripting complete yet.
Sword Coast Adventures Guide races added: Shield Dwarf, Gold Dwarf, Moon Elf, Sun Elf, Strongheart Halfling, and Deep Gnome (Svirfneblin). Human Variant Language options. NOTE: No scripting complete yet.
Rogue Genius Games Shadow Warrior class added. NOTE: Scripting Required for "Exotic Weapon Training".
Added Elemental Evil Player's Companion races & subtypes: Deep Gnome; Genasi (Air, Earth, Fire, Water) & Goliath.
Added Ogremoch from Princes of the Apocalypse
Added Midgard Heroes for 5th Edition Races: Alsied, Centaur (Midgard), Dragonkin, Elfmarked, Gearforged, Ghoul (Darakhul).
New EN5ider articles: 07 - Nature's Remedy; 15 - Strands of Life; 16 - King and Country; 18 - King and Country II; 57 - Scientific Sorcerery & 58 - It's Never Over. NOTE: No scripting complete yet.
New adjustment "Weapon Finesse" adjustment that lets a gamer give the weapon property Finesse to any selected weapon.
New adjustment "Casting Attribute" that allows a gamer to change the ability score that a class uses for spellcasting.
New adjustment "Add Single Spell to Class/Race" that lets you add a "single" spell to a class/race list. In example add the Hold Person spell to the Paladin class or the Death Knight race.

Enhancements and Changes

Misc fixes to the adjustments to make them sort in the list better.
Add Charisma Bonus to Rakish Audacity in SCAG Class
Hord of the Dragon Queen - Fully scripted the greatsword weapon Hazirawn. Spells and extra damage all display when you attune the weapon. In addition it displays in the correct section of the weapons list. Fully scripted the "Wand of Winter" so its charges and spells display on the Spells tab.
Updated many background descriptions and Spells text. Still need to work on the table information but this is a good start.
Script fixes for some Sword Coast Adventures Guide Classes, Arcane domain, and Arcane Banishment.

Bug Fixes

Duel Wielder feat will no longer display an error message when wielding two one-handed weapons (ie two rapiers).
Weapon Master feat is fixed to not have the 2 bootstrapped helper feats count against a characters total feats taken.
Elemental Adept feat - Will let you choose elemental types again.

[Asandir]

If you pulled the update for the Book of Lost Spells, there were some text formatting and taq cleanup on the A-G spells.

Also, nice to see that the En5ider articles showed up today. Yes they have no scripting as I am not really that good at scripting.

[solomani]

Awesome. Thanks :)

[mazzy]

Hello all! I just purchased Hero Lab a couple of days ago and promptly downloaded the community pack. Fantastic job on getting this out and helping fill in the missing pieces.

I do have a couple of questions that I'm hoping someone might be able to help with :) I created a Wood Elf Ranger with the Beastmaster Archetype (he just hit level 3) but I can't seem to figure out how to get the Ranger's companion? I've looked under the Ranger tab and then all the other tabs but don't see a way to add a companion, though it is listed under his special abilities.

I also have a Tiefling monk who is using the Feral and Winged variant options from SCAG but am unsure how to properly include those changes. Though I have seen the Editor's documentation and the video, I haven't seen anything specifically discussing variants. Any help pointing me in the right direction would be much appreciated :)

Again, thank you to all who have worked on this fantastic community pack, it played a large part in my purchase decision!

[daplunk]

Interested in bringing another script / coder onto the team. We have more than enough people who can add new content but we lack the hands required to program everything we are making. If you have the skills or are looking to put the time into learn the skills drop me a message here.

[mazzy]

Interested in bringing another script / coder onto the team. We have more than enough people who can add new content but we lack the hands required to program everything we are making. If you have the skills or are looking to put the time into learn the skills drop me a message here.

I'd actually be interested in learning the skills to help. My background is in graphic and web design, but I've always had an interest in how things work behind the scenes. Hopefully I can be of some use :)

[Coriolanus]

Not sure as I don't have my books in front of me (they're getting here tomorrow) but I think there is a glitch in the Noble Knight. Anytime I try to click on a FEATURE (see image) it sends up an error.

http://www.bombshellstudios.com/temp/nobleknight.png

This isn't terrible annoying but it continues to register an invalidation error because it isn't filled.

[daplunk]

Please raise all issues through the following:

https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/new

[Maikera]

Interested in bringing another script / coder onto the team. We have more than enough people who can add new content but we lack the hands required to program everything we are making. If you have the skills or are looking to put the time into learn the skills drop me a message here.

If you guys have the patience to help me, i would love learn scripting, just tell me where begin.

[panda]

Go in the Editor then Help and there are tutorials

[liz]

Go in the Editor then Help and there are tutorials

@Maikera, I can't agree with this enough. Aaron, one the data file authors, has put together some amazing documentation to assist users just like you. I've even been following along and learning some new tricks to put custom content in for my game. It's really helpful.

[Maikera]

@panda, @liz Roger that ! ^^. i'll do the help sequence as fast as possible.

[jreyst]

Hey guys! Wow! I didn't know this was available! My name is John Reyst and I run the 5e SRD (www.5eSRD.com) as well as the Pathfinder SRD (and others). Would it be possible to get this data in a non-binary format (XML, HTML, plain text etc.)? I'd love to put this up on the SRD!

[Frodie]

I think you can view the xml at - https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab

[xdy]

I think you can view the xml at - https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab

Hi,

I'm one of those working on the 5e hero lab community pack. Though, I am not in any way speaking for the others helping with the community pack, this is just my uninformed self offering (perhaps blindingly obvious) unsolicited advice with no legal standing whatsoever. :)

Anyway, in case you're thinking of using the community pack stuff on the 5esrd pages, do note that you should probably talk to one of Daplunk, Sklore or ShadowChemosh first, but hopefully one of them will notice this conversation.

You'll probably also want to vet the files before using anything from them. I'm sure there are places where our paraphrasing is insufficient, we've probably used a few terms we shouldn't, and there are still a lot of things with the description 'Placeholder'. (If it's just for your private use, of course, that's not likely to matter.)

The file quality will get better over time, especially if more people help - kind of like 5esrd.com :)

/Jonas

[jfjohnny5]

New to Hero Lab. Thanks for the effort in getting the Community pack out. I have a question about all the "placeholder" content descriptions. Will that be filled in, in future updates? Is the expectation that I should fill it in myself using the editor? If I fill it in myself, will future updates "roll back" my content edits to just display "Placeholder" again?

[xdy]

New to Hero Lab. Thanks for the effort in getting the Community pack out. I have a question about all the "placeholder" content descriptions. Will that be filled in, in future updates? Is the expectation that I should fill it in myself using the editor? If I fill it in myself, will future updates "roll back" my content edits to just display "Placeholder" again?

They'll be replaced as people find the time to write up text for the item in question (note that in many cases the original text cannot be used. For instance, if it's not in the srd (or for third party publishers if it's not declared Open Content) we can't use it, and must therefore paraphrase the text). I.e. no guarantees on when, but the commonly used stuff will probably be done within a reasonably low number of versions.

You certainly can fill them in yourself, but they will be overwritten by the next update. The easiest way to get around that is of course to get your (paraphrased) text included in the Community Pack. Probably easiest to do by creating an issue here:
https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues
and add a file with your suggested replacements for Placeholder. Kind of like Gwaithador did here:
https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/285
(Of course, if you happen to be comfortable with github, sending pull requests and/or patches to the .user files works too.)

/Jonas

[ShadowChemosh]

Anyway, in case you're thinking of using the community pack stuff on the 5esrd pages, do note that you should probably talk to one of Daplunk, Sklore or ShadowChemosh first, but hopefully one of them will notice this conversation.
Yes please do this as this can get into a sticky situation with the fact that some of these Wikies are setup to "make" money. Meaning taking others work and making "money" is to me not acceptable.

I have run into this before with the Pathfinder material where 3PP companies have taken the community work incorporated into "paid" products and made money from it. Once things move out of "free" gaming groups things get sticky and I admit I get protective of the free time/effort my editors put into the Packs. This includes my own money paying for a IP/Copyright lawyer before....

Please free to take this offline and discuss. I can be emailed at my forum user id at yahoo dot com.

Thanks

[Mergon]

Shadow: I emailed you the .user file as requested.

I posted this to the wrong place.

[Ninefingers]

Can someone point me to a detailed tutorial on how to add beasts, or monsters to hero lab. I would like to help contribute to this project, but am unable to find a walk through that does not leave a ton of stuff up to interpretation, or assuming prior knowledge of hero lab editing.

[daplunk]

Tutorials can be found through the help menu in the editor. Your not making monsters though. Your making a race so perhaps check out that tutorial. Most of us have learnt how to do this via making a new (copy) in the editor of an already existing thing. You simply look at the thing and figure out how it was done and then copy the method over to your new 'thing'. There's pretty much another thing that has done everything somewhere in the data.

[panda]

Beasts are in the SRD, I suppose Lone Wolf will add them soon.
Best is to look how race (monsters) are done by doing copy of existing one and look at them, after following all the tutorials.

[Gwaithador]

I posted the last of the PHB replacement text in GitHub. Hopefully, with the next update, all the classes in the PHB will now have appropriate text instead of "placeholder" which should make the printed sheets look cool and give us all a sense of completeness. :)

[daplunk]

I think alot of people will enjoy the next release. I used the early build in a game yesterday and was very happy.

The next but chunk of place holders that's needs replacing is the backgrounds if anyone would like to have a go at changing those to be 20% different just send me a text document and we will update the code.

[ShadowChemosh]

sense of completeness. :)
And who does not like that! :p

[Ninefingers]

Thanks everyone. I was able to copy the class, but it would not show up in the encounter builder only as a race when creating a character.


EDIT: Crap nevermind you said RACE not CLASS>

[Gwaithador]

I'll tackle the backgrounds. I'll go through them in order, and only those in the PHB.

[keendk]

Has people mentioned enough that you guys are absolute heroes?
Thank you so much for all your hard work :)

[Gwaithador]

It seems HippyCraig has the background stuff covered. If you need me to come up with text, email or PM me.

[defiancecp]

So I've created several characters successfully in the community pack, and results have been dead on - yay! - but I just ran into trouble with my mid-level bard; Can't seem to find where the 'Expertise' (for skills) selections are made. It detects that I haven't made expertise selections (I get the validation splat with the message: "Expertise: You must choose an option.") - but I've been going through all the options for quite a while and just cannot find where to make the selection...

[QueenOfWinter]

Wanted to drop in just to say you all are awesome. That is all.

[MrEdaniels]

Update URL isn't working for Ipad version of 5E Herolab (unless I need a license to make it work, that might be the problem).

[wurzel]

It works fine for me, so maybe you have a typing error?

[BoomerET]

I see at the bottom left of the Background tab:
'Background & Faction Features'

Yet, where to select a Faction has eluded me.

I looked through the SRD, and didn't find any mention of Factions, so maybe that's why?

The reason I'm asking is because of the Hero Lab to Fantasy Grounds converter I'm working on.


Boomer

[TechanMac]

So I got D&D 5e for Herolab as soon as it came out because I love HeroLab and have been just starting a 5e game. The SRD release was disappointing as they didn't have any of the info for the character I was playing.

I was excited about this community pack, as I thought it would fix that, but am hoping that I just messed something up in the installation as it still seems to be missing the things I was needing. Namely, all the archetype options for classes seem to still be limited to just one option, such as the Divine Domains for Clerics, the different Circles for Druids, the different Bardic Colleges for Bards, etc. Still only one option available for all of those. Did I do something wrong? Or are those still not available yet in this pack?

[daplunk]

There is no faction ability currently.

[BoomerET]

Thanks @daplunk.

[BoomerET]

There are two 'Spare the Dying' spells.

(Found during Optional Book of Shadow Cantrips)

[daplunk]

Click HERE (https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/new) to report a new issue or request a new enhancement within the Community Pack.
Click HERE (http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=54821) to see the official Hero Labs support information.

[BoomerET]

Thanks deplunk, I've submitted it via GIT.

[daplunk]

And a tip. If you enable developer mode you can right click on things to see the name. If the name contains '5C' its community content. Alternatively its LW content. This lets you know who to log the ticket to using the links above.

[BoomerET]

Awesome, thanks for the hint, been programming HL for a few years and didn't know about that right click thing.

[daplunk]

v1.4 May 19, 2016

A fairly significant update is now available. A huge chunk of the place holders have now being replaced with paraphrased text. A huge thanks to all involved. This was not a quick task. You should note that background text in your pre existing characters will not update automatically. You can remove and re-add the background to load the text into your character.

We have also added alpha and beta tags to the pack element names. This should give you an idea of the status of the content.

As always. Please don't report bugs via this forum. Instead use the links to our github in the first post.

New Features

DMG - New Items Added (Saddle of the Cavalier, Cap of Water Breathing, Cloak of Invisibility, Driftglobe, Efreeti Chain, Elixir of Health, Gloves of Thievery, Mariner's Armor, Potion of Fire Breathing, Potion of Invulnerability, Potion of Vitality, Sending Stones, Sentinel Shield,Rod of Pact Keeper, Alchemy Jug).
Adv League - Rage of Demons - Added monsters and NPC : Giant Two-headed Goat, Wild Dog, Wild Dog Alpha, Rothé Zombie, Breex Vandermast, Red Plume Patrol, Captain Erlich, Evil Sorcerer.
Out of the Abyss - Added monsters : Derro, Derro Savant
Out of the Abyss - NPC Races : Drow Template
Monster Manual - Added monsters : Dracolich template
New Adjustment - Change weapon type information of item
New Adjustment - Natural Weapon, Extra Damage
New Adjustment - Natural Weapon, Target
New Adjustment - Multiattack Text
New Adjustment - Spell DC, Specific School. NOTE: Currently individual spell DCs are not displayed in HL.
New Adjustment - Spell DC, Single Spell. NOTE: Currently individual spell DCs are not displayed in HL.
Added in a generic "Spell Attack" weapon that can be added to any character.
New adjustment - "Spell Attack Dmg" that lets a gamer set any type of damage onto the selected "Spell Attack" weapon. This is helpful for both those using iPads or paper sheets.
SCAG - Deities - Added all missing gods from normal FR pantheon
SCAG - Tiefling Variants
En5ider 07 Nature's Remedy - No scripting completed
En5ider 15 Strands of Life - No scripting completed
En5ider 16 King and Country - No scripting complete
En5ider 18 King and Country II - No scripting complete
En5ider 34 Chessmaster and Commanders - No scripting complete
En5ider 57 Scientific Sorcery - No scripting complete
En5ider 58 It's Never Over - No scripting complete
Rage of Demons - New Monsters (Red Plume Patrol, Breex Vandermast, Derro)
DDEX3-2 - New Monsters (Captain Erlich, Evil Sorcerer)
Rage of Demons - Poison Weapon Added
HOMEBREW - New Spell (Word of Censure)
HOMEBREW - New Cleric Domain (Exorcism)
PHB - New Spells (Mage's Faithful Hound, Mage's Magnificent Mansion, Mage's Private Sanctum, Mage's Sword)

Enhancements and Changes

Added tags to source selection to indicate current status of content. Alpha - Have started adding the 'Things' to the tool. Beta - All 'Things' added and usable however scripting will be missing or incomplete. - Content is released, may contain placeholders still.
PHB - All class 'Placeholders' replaced with relevant text.
PHB - Backgrounds (All 'placeholders' replaced with relevant text).
SCAG - Backgrounds (All 'placeholders' replaced with relevant text).
SCAG - Added Arcana suggested domain to some deities.
5eFeats - Pre-Requisites coded into all feats.
5eFeats - Expertise added to all feats except Skill Focus.
Elemental Earth - Replaces Spell placeholders with relevant text.

Bug Fixes

Great Weapon Master - Now correctly applying result to magic weapons
Monster Manual - Bone Naga spellcasting has correct spellcasting attribute now
Monster Manual - Flame Skull renamed to Flameskull
PHB - Feats (Dual Wielder spelling corrected)
War Cleric Bugs resolved
SCAG - Storm Sorcery Sorcerer: Now receiving Fly correctly at 18th level instead of Level 1.
Fifth Edition Feats - "Spell Focus" feat to be able to actually Select a school of magic and have its DC bonus reflected on spells. NOTE: Currently individual spell DCs are not displayed in HL.

[AEIOU]

Congrats on the release and thank you!!!

[AEIOU]

I've started a thread on Github for spelling corrections on the Backgrounds. I'll get back to more correction suggestions hopefully next week unless someone else picks up where I left off. My thanks to the person(s) that did the hard part of rewording all of those!

[daplunk]

Thanks, I knew there would be a number of them. It was a very mundane task :)

[solomani]

Excellent.

[burkoJames]

I have added "http://www.shadowsoftware.net/herolab/5e/updates.xml" to my update list but after reboots can not access the community files for download. they do not appear on the update list. I receive the d20pfsrd updates without problems.

Edit: Apparently im blind. Nevermind.

[PandaWTG]

Okay, so I'm trying to get this working on my ipad, and I'm having some trouble. So I added the url for the community pack, I installed it and the only thing showing up is an Update titled "5e Community Pack." I installed that and no new content is showing up. No packs have populated my available updates or anything. I feel like I'm doing something wrong, can anyone help?

[ShadowChemosh]

Okay, so I'm trying to get this working on my ipad, and I'm having some trouble. So I added the url for the community pack, I installed it and the only thing showing up is an Update titled "5e Community Pack." I installed that and no new content is showing up. No packs have populated my available updates or anything. I feel like I'm doing something wrong, can anyone help?
Did you go to the "Character" tab and turn on the source options for the 5e Pack like "5e Players Handbook" or other books?

[PandaWTG]

Did you go to the "Character" tab and turn on the source options for the 5e Pack like "5e Players Handbook" or other books?

Ahhhh I feel really dumb. Thank you so much.

[fyerbug72]

Okay so I am having the same problem as Panda. I have followed the instructions to the letter(I think) and the pack is not showing up anywhere. It is not showing up in the configure hero section nor in the updates section. I re-installed and still no luck. Please help!!!

[ShadowChemosh]

Okay so I am having the same problem as Panda. I have followed the instructions to the letter(I think) and the pack is not showing up anywhere. It is not showing up in the configure hero section nor in the updates section. I re-installed and still no luck. Please help!!!
Please list the "exact" steps you have done. Provide screen shots if you can. Need more information.

[panda]

Okay so I am having the same problem as Panda.

I don't have any problems :p

[BoomerET]

Are you sure you installed the 'Community' update?

You'll first need to configure the update XML file.

[ekendra]

I just want to say, "You guys rock!"

There. Done.

[ekendra]

.....

[direwolves]

I have a player who's using a Dragonborn Fighter with the Mariner fighting style. Is this available to enter in the current version? I can't seem to find Mariner anywhere. Or is that something possibly coming?

[seffer]

Hi. I've got the community pack working on my iMac and have been playing with several characters on it. I recently got HL on my iPad and added the 5E SRD. Everything seems to work, including sharing my portfolio with Dropbox, except:

I can't get the Community Pack to install on the iPad. I used the shadowsoftware URL at the start of this thread, but I get this error message: "Error while retrieving http://shadowsoftware.net/herolab/5e/updates.xml. The updates document could not be retrieved. Please check the URL is correct and redownload Hero Lab."

Any ideas? I've tried several times and I get the same error. I've also tried reinstalling the 5E SRD.

[ShadowChemosh]

Hi. I've got the community pack working on my iMac and have been playing with several characters on it. I recently got HL on my iPad and added the 5E SRD. Everything seems to work, including sharing my portfolio with Dropbox, except:

I can't get the Community Pack to install on the iPad. I used the shadowsoftware URL at the start of this thread, but I get this error message: "Error while retrieving http://shadowsoftware.net/herolab/5e/updates.xml. The updates document could not be retrieved. Please check the URL is correct and redownload Hero Lab."

Any ideas? I've tried several times and I get the same error. I've also tried reinstalling the 5E SRD.
I just verified using my browser that the URL is working and checked on my iPad. No issues.

My only guess would be you have an extra "space" or something in the URL. I would delete it and reenter it make sure no space is at the end or beginning of the URL.

[seffer]

I just verified using my browser that the URL is working and checked on my iPad. No issues.

My only guess would be you have an extra "space" or something in the URL. I would delete it and reenter it make sure no space is at the end or beginning of the URL.

Ah. Got it. I was behind a firewall that must have been blocking this. Got it working now. Thanks!

[ShadowChemosh]

Ah. Got it. I was behind a firewall that must have been blocking this. Got it working now. Thanks!
Damn Firewalls! :D :p

Glad its working now...

[gamemasterbob]

I just want to say THANKS to all those who put their knowledge and time to work to make this 5e community pack possible. I hope that you will continue. THANKS and GREAT WORK!!!

Bob

[mattig89ch]

I want to say thank you to the team that put this together. I was about to come here, asking how to enter classes and races myself. So that I can enter these classes by hand. But this package solved my problems.

Thanks again folks!

[Barrels23]

Has anyone managed to create Matthew Mercer's Blood Hunter? I've really been wanting to use that class for some campaigns I'm working on, but I can't figure out the details of the Editor.

[daplunk]

No this has not been added yet. If anyone has it I can add it in the next release.

[Barrels23]

I essentially have the majority of the class figured out. My big four problems are with the Crimson Rite (and by extension Sanguine Mastery), Blood Maledict, the Formulas for the Order of the Mutant, and the patronage and spells for the Order of the Profane Soul.

With Crimson Rite, I'd like to know if it is possible to cause the damage to show up along with the weapons, as well as to take off the HP while activated (until Sanguine Mastery negates the loss of HP). Also, I'd like to know if it's possible to remove available rites once selected.

With Blood Maledict, I need to figure out how to choose two curses when first gained, remove selected curses from further options, and if it is possible to show those effects at all. I have a similar problem with the Formulas.

With the Order of the Profane Soul, I can't really figure out how to be able to select a patron, or restrict the choices of spells a hero learns.

[mirtos]

First off: Thanks everyone for their hard work.

This may have already been discussed in the release, but ive noticed that Paladin spells appear to be missing all the paladin spells in the PHB. Is this coming?

Also, there seems to be a bug about racial cantrips. Cantrips are cast at the level of the character, not a caster, and racial cantrips are also cast at the level of the character, not a caster. This might be a general bug and not related to the community pack.

[daplunk]

If your missing all the Paladin spells you're doing something wrong. PHB Spells are 100% complete.

If you find any bugs please report them via our GitHub repository with the steps taken to replicate the bug so we can investigate.

https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues

[mirtos]

I dont think im doing something wrong. Ill look to see what im missing, but I remember a PC who is playing a paladin saying some things were missing, and i believe i have them all.

As for the bug, ill post one in a bit. glad to know its in github.

[diamondb]

I just installed everything yesterday and built my 6th level paladin, everything for him appeared fine. Well, I haven't figured out how to get his steed to appear correctly, but I'm not overly concerned with that at the moment, but all the spells were there.

[thundershot]

Having not played D&D in several years (and used HL extensively for Pathfinder), I decided to get the 5e pack and the community one. Lots of effort and work, but man... so many typos and errors in the text. One example is Moon elf saying it's an Eladrin subrace....Wha?

A hard drive failure caused me to lose all of my old data files, so I'm trying to relearn how to update and make my own adjustments....

[daplunk]

Lots of effort and work in a short period of time. More than happy to give more people access to help if they are willing.

[wurzel]

If you don't like those typos you can easily fix them yourself. In fact it is so easy even an old grandma like me could do it (if I had enough time for it). Just don't forget to share your work with the community.

[AEIOU]

True dat. It's easy to make fixes and submit them. I noted errors in one of the last packs and the team putting the community pack together guided me through how to be a part of the solution. I added my edits and they are part of the community pack now.

Please do help with corrections. Everyone's help makes it better.

[daplunk]

v1.5 July 31, 2016

New Features

Homebrew Class - Alchemist (beta - requires scripting)
Homebrew Feats - Added numerous goblin flavored feats
Homebrew Race - New Playable Race (Goblin)
Deities - Added 5x Goblin Deities
DMG - Magic Items (Rod of the Pact Keeper, Staff of the Adder, Sword of Answering, Sword of Vengeance, Tentacle Rod, Tome of the Stilled Tongue, Instruments of the Bard x7)
Unearthed Arcana - Added New Feats (scripting complete)
Unearthed Arcana - Added Waterborn Adventures (Mariner fighting style, Minotaur (Krynn) Player Race)
Unearthed Arcana - Eberron (New Race: Changeling; New Race: Warforged; New Wizard Tradition: Artificer; New Feat: Dragonmark)


Enhancements and Changes

PHB Backgrounds - multiple spelling and grammar corrections
PHB Stout Halfling - grammar corrections
DMG - Magic Item (Efreeti Chain - Scripting updated)
Class (Gunslinger) - Grit points now calculating correctly; Ammunition types added to Gear; Firearm Properties added to all firearms. Mouse Over for information.
Noble Class - Noble Path of the Tactician, Noble Path of the Brave are both now added. No scripting complete.
SCAG - Classes - Updated multiple 'placeholders' with mechanical text.


Bug Fixes

Cleric Divine Domain Exorcism - added source information
SCAG - Wizard (Bladesinger) - Resolved Extra Attack Display Bug
PHB - Barbarian - Totem Spirit of the Wolf - Text Corrected (was displaying Bear totem text)
PHB - Feats - Sharpshooter - Script was not triggering, corrected phase timing.
PHB - Feats - Duel Wielder - Now correctly calculating damage for Fighters and Rangers with duel wielding fighting style.
PHB - Cleric - Removed incorrect script from Channel Divinity - Knowledge of the Ages

[dafrca]

Once again, I want to express my gratitude for all the hard work and effort the team puts into this. I can't really express how nice it is.

Thank You

[daplunk]

I highly recommend the We Be Goblins modules with the newly added Goblin race. Lots of fun

[Necroblivion]

Good day gents. I just downloaded the 5e Community Pack today, and I can't seem to get it to work. I see that it's there, and I see the files, but I have no options to configure for it.

I also got the following error messages when loading:

The data files could not be loaded due to errors. Hero Lab will now attempt to load them in recovery mode. Once loaded, you can access the editor as normal to correct any errors.

The following errors occurred:

File: 5eExtras.user (line 34) - Thing - Invalid unique id 'rBRI?' for attribute 'id'
File: 5eExtras.user (line 53) - Thing - Invalid unique id 'rBRI?' for attribute 'id'

[Mergon]

Do you have any custom material you've created?

I had several errors pop up. They were between the new Unearthed Arcana feats added in 1.5 and my files for the same thing. Then I remembered that I had uploaded them to the GIT site for inclusion in 1.5. :)

I just did a quick check of the .user files and can't find any file called 5eExtras.user. Is this a personal .user file?

[Mergon]

I highly recommend the We Be Goblins modules with the newly added Goblin race. Lots of fun

You realize it souns like you just volunteered to add it to HL?

:D

[ShadowChemosh]

Good day gents. I just downloaded the 5e Community Pack today, and I can't seem to get it to work. I see that it's there, and I see the files, but I have no options to configure for it.

I also got the following error messages when loading:

The data files could not be loaded due to errors. Hero Lab will now attempt to load them in recovery mode. Once loaded, you can access the editor as normal to correct any errors.

The following errors occurred:

File: 5eExtras.user (line 34) - Thing - Invalid unique id 'rBRI?' for attribute 'id'
File: 5eExtras.user (line 53) - Thing - Invalid unique id 'rBRI?' for attribute 'id'
This issue is coming from your own personal files as the community Pack has no file called 5eExtras.user. What you did was appear to do a "New Copy" of something to look at and the editor adds in the "?" at the end. Making it an invalid Unique ID. If you saved the file and then restarted HL "then" the issue will show up.

Start the editor and open file "5eExtras.user". I would assume the above is a "Race" so look at the race tab. And either "fix" the Unique ID to not have a "?" or delete the whole Thing if you don't need it.

Restart HL and you should be good...

[daplunk]

@Mergon This last release already has everything needed :D

Here's a *.por file with the 5E versions of the PCs. The modules can all be found for free as they release on FreeRPG day (June 18th) annually.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_6BXlzLTlj8eHh2c240RkMxMGM/view?usp=sharing

[Necroblivion]

@ShadowChemosh

That worked! Thank you very much.

[Dervish]

Goblin pantheon issue. As i was working on my own user file i noticed that the goblin pantheon was for some reason getting mixed with custom pantheon. looking through Com_5ePack_PHB - Deities.user none of the Goblin Deities were assigned Deity Catagory Order Group. For those people who notice and want to correct the problem in their own installations the order group for Goblin Deities is 17

[KingBarthur]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong but I've downloaded the Community Pack, updated and still don't see any backgrounds other than Acolyte.

Using this URL:
http://www.shadowsoftware.net/herolab/5e/updates.xml

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

[Dervish]

It's in character options you need to set all the defaults to activate the community service pack I will send screenshots later tonight

[ShadowChemosh]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong but I've downloaded the Community Pack, updated and still don't see any backgrounds other than Acolyte.

Using this URL:
http://www.shadowsoftware.net/herolab/5e/updates.xml

Is there something I'm doing wrong?
See THIS (http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost.php?p=224561&postcount=21) post for help.

[Jiriki13]

I'm trying to create a warlock in 5e and it doesn't show the spell Witch Bolt in the spell list for my warlock. I went into create the spell myself and noticed that it is in there, just not showing up for a warlock. I also tried to create a sorcerer and it's not there for that class either and should be.

How can I fix this?

PS I wasn't sure where to post this question.

[daplunk]

Witch Bolt is enabled for Sorcerer, Warlock and Wizard. I just tested and can add it to them all.

Are you certain you have the community pack enabled? How many backgrounds do you see?

[Jiriki13]

I still only see Acolyte. How do I enable the community pack? I followed the install instructions, but apparently I missed something.

Witch Bolt is enabled for Sorcerer, Warlock and Wizard. I just tested and can add it to them all.

Are you certain you have the community pack enabled? How many backgrounds do you see?

[daplunk]

See THIS (http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost.php?p=224561&postcount=21) post for help.

[SFornelli]

Many apologies if there's a better place to post this.

I'm trying to create an entry for the Staff of Defense from Lost Mine of Phandelver. How can I get the item to:
A) show up as a wieldable weapon?
B) confer a +1 to the wielder's armor class?

Thank you!

[donperk]

The spell Beast Bond (sp5CEPCBea) should be available for Druid and Ranger classes. Currently the file only supports Druid.

[bazutti]

I don't know where to report any errors so I'm posting here. I am starting a level 3 character with 2 levels in Druid and 1 in Monk. I'm playing a Human variant.

The error is that on my In-Play tab, it shows that I can cast Alter Self at-will. However, I shouldn't get this until 14th level Druid, correct?

[daplunk]

You can log faults using this link: https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/new

I have a backlog of things I need to look at but have been super busy lately. Will get to it eventually. If there's anyone out there with the skill-set, always happy to have others actively assisting.

[Asandir]

I've got a bunch of the En5ider articles prepped at Alpha for most and a few at a Beta as I've done a bit of coding, between Article 7 and Article 80 I think. Not all of them but probably two dozen more. Computers at my house and Windows 10 have not gotten along, so I've lost my github setup and connection. I'll try to get them uploaded manually soon. Also made significant progress through cleaning up the Book of Lost Spells. Between computer rebuilds and general lack of time, and a possible major job change, time to work on files is probably going to be non-existent starting the first of next month.

[bazutti]

You can log faults using this link: https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/new

I have a backlog of things I need to look at but have been super busy lately. Will get to it eventually. If there's anyone out there with the skill-set, always happy to have others actively assisting.

Thanks! I'll go post there.

[AussieDM]

I can't seem to find the high elf data file anywhere. Not in PHB, not in Homebrew, not in SCAG, not anywhere. Any clues?

[Mergon]

High elf is in Hero Lab files. I think that's what you are asking anyways.

[AussieDM]

High elf is in Hero Lab files. I think that's what you are asking anyways.

Yeah, but how do I access them in the Editor? I'm trying to create a half-elf variant from SCAG as it's not an available option in the community pack but damned if I can figure it out.

I've found the moon elf in the SCAG files so I've been able to figure out how to add the cantrip ability, but only as a new race rather than sub-race option to the half elf.

Man this stuff is confusing :(

[Mergon]

Again, I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but srElfHigh is the high elf under subraces but I don't feel that is what you are asking for.

[AussieDM]

Again, I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but srElfHigh is the high elf under subraces but I don't feel that is what you are asking for.

When I click on "Open Data File" it takes me to the 5e data folder. The only options to load are the COM ones and none of them have the High Elf in it. The only option is the Moon or Sun Elf variants in the SCAG .user data file.

I'm just trying to create the half-elf variants from SCAG but can't figure out how to do it without copying from already built sources, hence why I looked for the high elf. I found what I needed in the Moon elf variant to build the Cantrip ability, but can't now get it to pop-up as an option for the core Half Elf like it does for the Human variant.

Honestly, I don't care how it's done, I just can't figure out how to build a half-elf variant racial option to choose in the builder. So if there are better ways to go about this, I'm all (elf) ears.

[daplunk]

Just click the copy button from the editor. The elf is built into the core pack and can't be opened in the editor.

[AussieDM]

Just click the copy button from the editor. The elf is built into the core pack and can't be opened in the editor.

Copy what? If it can't be opened in the editor, what am I copying?

[daplunk]

Just press the new (copy) button. You'll see.

[AussieDM]

Just press the new (copy) button. You'll see.

Yeah, that's totally unhelpful since there are a dozen different ways to copy from a dozen different things.

But it doesn't matter, I figured it out.

[BoomerET]

AussieDM,

When somebody goes out of their way to help you, the correct reply is to say thank you.

@daplunk gave a valid and insightful comment. While brief, he was completely correct.

Maybe he didn't know that he needed to provide more information, but assumed that you knew that in order to copy something, you need to be in the correct editor tab.

So, I'll provide the hand-holding you're looking for.

1. Open the editor.
2. Create new file.
3. Click 'Race' tab.
4. Click 'New (Copy).
5. Choose something close to what you want, and make the appropriate changes.
6. Click 'Save'


Boomer

[Korlen]

So, I'll provide the hand-holding you're looking for.

Boomer

Check the veteran snark at the door, please.

[Mergon]

I'm backing BoomerET on this.

AussieDM, comment:

Yeah, that's totally unhelpful since there are a dozen different ways to copy from a dozen different things.

But it doesn't matter, I figured it out.

deserved such a reply in my opinion.

I also tried to help him, but found his requests a bit hazie, but I tried to reply to what I thought he was askign for. :)

[AussieDM]

So, I'll provide the hand-holding you're looking for.

1. Open the editor.
2. Create new file.
3. Click 'Race' tab.
4. Click 'New (Copy).
5. Choose something close to what you want, and make the appropriate changes.
6. Click 'Save'

Still unhelpful since, again, you're not specifying which .user file to open in the editor in the first place since that determines which "races" are available to copy from.

Not only that, but your "solution" is inaccurate. To do what I was asking about actually requires opening the COM races .user file (see, I actually mentioned the FILE that needs to be opened, because if you don't open the right file, then the things you're talking about being so easy to find in order to copy from, AREN'T THERE TO BE COPIED FROM), then creating a copy of the Half-Elf race, making a new identifier for it, deleting Skill Versatility from it, labelling it as something like "Half-Elf Variant", and then creating a SUBRACE that links to that race, for each individual variant, with the easiest way of doing so to copy the subrace entry with the desired trait, creating a new identifier for it, a new name to go in parentheses with it, deleting all the aspects of it that don't apply, then testing to see if it pops up as a subrace option when choosing the Half Elf Variant, and if it does, compiling, then saving the data file.

All of which is a far cry from, "Just copy it, you'll see."

So, I'll provide the hand-holding you're looking for.
Also unhelpful.

You want people to contribute to a community project and create a community, then don't act elitist and if you don't know the answer to something, don't answer pretending like you do.

[ShadowChemosh]

Still unhelpful since, again, you're not specifying which .user file to open in the editor in the first place since that determines which "races" are available to copy from.

WOW! So you don't even try the solution but instead just complain about?

Follow his steps and you maybe will learn something about HL works.

You see New (Copy) does a copy of any Thing that is in the data base regardless of what .user file you loaded. In matter of fact its the ONLY way to get the Things that LW put in 5e.

My advice is stop assuming and listen to the advice you are being given....

[daplunk]

No need to keep replying please team.

Let's ensure we maintain the high standard community culture that we currently have.

I acknowledge that my response was short and to the point, it had to be, i was juggling a screaming three year old on one knee and trying to stop the 8 month old from biting me in the other hand.

#DadLife

[Mergon]

<sigh>

1. Open the editor.
2. Create new file. <- Create your own.
3. Click 'Race' tab. <- then subrace tab.
4. Click 'New (Copy) . <- srElfHigh or High Elf
5.
6. Click 'Save'

This gives you a copy of the High Elf that you can work with. You CANNOT open or work with the orginal High Elf subrace directly. It's basically hard coded.

I presume you have been workign with your own .user file and copies of the files you wanted . . . NOT the originals. If you have been modifying the original files, you will LOSE those changes when/if those files are updated.

Never, ever modify a COM_ file. Make all your changes in a personal .user file.

You create your own .user file.

[AussieDM]

Let's ensure we maintain the high standard community culture that we currently have.

Lol, high standard my arse.

Don't worry, I won't come back.

[Mergon]

<sigh> Some people just won't let you help them.

[BoomerET]

Yea, after my post I went and looked at every post of his.

We get people like that around here every so often.

I'll say a prayer for him.


Dave

[BoomerET]

@Korlen,

Point taken. You are correct, I should have been more tactful.


Dave

[wurzel]

Don't worry, I won't come back.

Now that is a very good idea.

[Palorin]

Patiently waiting for the next Comm Pack to be released.